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VOL. !><>. HO. 101
Auociated Preaa Service. United Preia Dispatches,
ATHENS, GA„ TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928.
-A. B. C. Paper. Single Copica 2 Centa. 6 Cents Sunday.
JAPAN SEIZES CHINESE RAILROAD
APANftNDdlNfl NEAR WAR
ALA. DEMOCRATS ARE
HOLDING HEATED
CONTEST OVER
60V. SMITH
THEY’LL GO SOUTH TOGETHER
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—(UP)—Indiana, swept by
tremendous wave of political enthusiasm, voted in
[ primary election Tuesday on its most significant
ray of issues in years.
balloting will determine a
ion of national importance—
wr Indiana’® 33 votes in the
ilicon national convention
go to Herbert Hoover or to
or James E. Watson, favorite
candidate for the presidential
imination. j “ -
hardly less importance will
flionutt rlo/>i«lnn nn fho mr.
Indiana;* decision on tho cor-
Iption isoUc—a decision which
lil show the: electorate's own
pinion of the scandals which have
(tied the
third , paramount result
I With
foktn
confident of victory by
margin!. '
th the repub’icana closely <11-
, the democmtathayiirpredlct-
.at their ticket wii carry the
in the November election,
it political histoiy has aeon
of the older alignments
up and ihrptvn into confus-
is Woolen, the democratic
Ivoritc son, ran unoppos'd on
MONTGOMERY. Ala.— (UP) —
Alabama democrats went to the
no’ls Tuesday to elect tw,enty.luor
delegates to the Houston national
convention, choose ten congres.
slonal candidates, three justices
CHARLESTON LANE; s^c
BANK STOCK IS
INCREASED
president
Commlsslou.
Interest centered about tho dolo.
gallon election. A pronounced
anti-Smith faction hopes to win a
statewide victory.
Clear or partly cloudy weather
over the s'ete Indicated a heavy
CHARLESTON, S- C.—The cap- , lv ,. r ,
# dnan aaa _ . i a majority of candidates for the
from $200,000 to $500,000 and the delegation to Houston are avowed* —
"” m ' hr of ^"Tlnd" sS&gSl.1 ly opposed to the candidacy of |
to The Citizens and Southern Governor Al Smith and an unin* 6
?•!*'.™ :. n "ffidfr.*h3d^‘ Oo'owtion of -dry’’tinge
\7^y In* Charleston'.” Thf.^k' believed aimoat sure of elec |
of this bank was recently acquire | uo ^ po ,, tlont how , r «r, was In the
vi by Intareats connected with the ,. 7, , v ’ mavor of
Citisena and Southern National G J r '.,“tonin'
Bank of thb city. l«d,TS onfoi .“delegate
The board of director* was in- „ t jjirgt! posts. Othr candidates
L IUUU , l^lriuiuum ..SUl.
concern farm relief. Indiana
ootid agricultural state, and
choic: between Hoover and
'.•on, the latter an outstanding
atpiott of farm relief, will fur-
0 a significant insight into, the
■icnltural middle tycst’s'altitude
Uo.wartal ■■ __
Pto the liarinimite of the -renstd from eight ,to fifteen. . At Jor.th^it-largo p<>»> w 1111 a lesu
ted PrimaxscMumten^Jtm ri- he close of f^postJta^i^M'.'log tO&Brde.'tho New York gmvr
Hoove, and. Watson campr lowing atafement was given out nor although they seek to go unin.
by Mills B. Lane, chairman of the ,tructed. era J. C. Henderson,
hoard of the Atlantic Savings Troy, p, u. Nihart, Cay Minotte,
Bank and president of the Citizens nml Trav j 3 williams, nusscllvlllo.
and Southern National Bank: “We Ayers, Anniston; Borden Burr,
have increased the capital stock T | 10 anti-Smith candidates for
>f the Atlantic Savings Bank be
muse we believe wo will have
ample use for the increased capi-
al and it is our desire to be just
1 little ahead of actual require
ments. And we will further in
•rense the capital stock from
time to time as we find we can
use the money to advantage."
TABLE ROCK COVE, 8. C.—(UP)—The 20,0001
inhabitants of the Saluda River Valley watched the i
flood stream with less misgiving Tuesday, hearten
ed by engineering reports that the great earthen dam
here would probably hold.
The 700 foot structure failed to * 1
RUSHING TROOPS
TOKIO, Japan.—(UP)—The
cabinet Tuesday decided to send
a third military expedition,
consisting of 18,000 men, to
China.
fissures in the last twelve
Tho 350,000,000 gallons of water,
escaping by wav of flood gates
and crevasses each day, will drain
the reservoir dry by Saturday, en-
gintetr. said, eliminating gradually
, tho danger of collapse of tho dam.
I | Relief committees of the Red
t Cross took over the task of caring
, for several refugees in th? upper
valley and Tuesday tent shelt rs
were available for scores of fami-
, lies forced to sleep in the open two
I nightn.
Colonel J. 'L. Ludlow, builder of
j the dam, and Major N. Y. Bausm 1
TOLEDO, Ohio.-(AP)—Police
patrolling roads leading Inlo
city in search of four ban-
who kidnapped the president
the First National Bank of
iSola, Indiana,. Tuesday morn.
tied his »3F '
ttd the bank
ah $15,000. > . I -
The president was taken to the
i»k where the bandits waited for
ar-hier who was forced to open
lauit. The bandlta escaped in
t ray sedan.
ihe robbers appeared at
["» of E. S. Cruxton, the bank
’esident, about SiBO a. m. Tue-
S’ ; They bound the bank offi-
ia wife and then escorted the
idont to tiro bank and forced
t" open the door. The reb-
then sought to havo hint open
f Lank vault hut he convinced
of his inability to do this.
PRINCE CAROL IS
ASKED TO LEAVE
BRITISH ISLES
LONDON — j jAPj —Sir jWU;
tiam Joynson-Hicka, secretary of
home affairs, told the house of
commons Tuesday that he hod
canard Prince Carol to be inform
ed that his presence in England
was no longer welcome and that
he ohould terminate his visit with
out delay. .. » J
The home secretary said that he
had taken this st;p after consulta
tion with Sir Auatcn Chamberlain,
Foreign Secretary-
I The bandits and their victim
ly: awaited in .the bank until 3-
flock, when the cashier arrived.
Joy tcooped up" all available
Boiicy and oscapinl. As soon as
■ entered the robbers forced hint
i open the vault.
[bheriffs posses, viglantes and
immediately took up the
Weather Forecast
•SV
Warmer-
Gcnerally fair
and not quite
so cold Tuesday
night. Wednes
day fair and
warmer.
Moderate
north winds.
SITUATION TENSE.
BUCHAREST, Rumania —(AP)
All Rumania waa filled with poli
tical excitement Tuesday as Juhu
Maniu, the peasant leader prepar
ed to present to the regency the
ncasant’s ultimatum for the imme
diate overthrow of the Bratiann
government.
If the regency refutes to act, as
seems now certain, Maniu is ex
pected to continue to rouse the
peasantry in order to exert the
necessary pressure.
delegates at large are Hanry or
Ayers. Anniston; Borden Burr.
Birmingham; A. H. Carmichael.
Buacumbla; John B. Weakley, Bir
mingham; T. 8. Faulk. Sampson:
J. F. Flnkles, Monroavllle; W. L.
White, Birmingham; U* O. Duggar,
Hep- Hull.
National leaders will also watch
with interest the result of the
fight between Walter Moore, dem
ocratic national committeeman, to
hold' his seat against th? antl-
Smlth candidate. Watt T. Brown,
Ragland. Moom, stressing “party
harmony,” has refused to align
himaalf either for or against
Smith. ,
GOVERNOR RITCHIE
E
—(NEA, Boiton Bureau.)
You see with Commander Richard E. Byrd In this picture another
Important member of the forthcoming Byrd expedition to the Antarct.c.
It’s the Irish terrier, of course—Byre's dog “Iga.” They re standing
at the entrance of one of the planes Byrd will take with mm v Igo
la three years old, odd wae given to Byrd by a Washington Wend,
“I'll take him on our ship, but not on the plane flight screes the South
Pole,” *ald Byrd.
Georgia Bulldogs Will’
Play Oglethorpe Here
Friday And Saturday
Hardman Will Not
Stop Hanging Of
Wade Johnson
BALTIMORE, Md. — (UP) --
Governor Albert C. Ritchie of
Maryland, told th* senate cam*
paign investigating committee
Tuesday that be does not expect to
win the f democratic presidential
nomination and will do nothing
United States hydraulic engineer,
considered the crisis well past.
Since th -first )**nk was discovered
in the'dam Friday night, they ad*
mitt d tho dan^sr jf a complc’o
tearing away of the structure had
Urn serious. Now with the
sloughing at least temporarily
* topr d and the great lake slowly
draining itself, pressure of im*
pounded wat rs was abated.
MEET n IN
i
interest to former owners of Fort!
Motor Company stock as corpor
ation income when the United
States Court of Appeals Tuesday
affirmed the U> S. District Court
at Detroit in the suit of Mrs-
Alice G. Kales against the gov*
eminent.
Eight plaintiffs pleaded they
were allegedly assessed amounts
totalling more than $44,500,00.
Fred L. Woodsworth, internal
revenue collector nt Detroit, had
appealed from tho district court’«
decision which held that Mrs,
Kales, widow of a Detroit manu
facturer, wo* entitled to recovery
of $2,627,309.05 which she had
paid the government under pro-
» J test.
* Charles E, Hughes, former Sec
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.- (UP) — rctnr i' of State, represented Mrs,
Tit* confederate army, aa much of *“
TOKIO, Japan.—(UP)
'—One hundred thousand
Chinese nationalists have
started an attack on Jap
anese troops at Tsinan,
and General Chians Kai
Shek, the nationalist
leader, has fled to Taian,
Nichi Nichi was advised
Tuesday.
murm.v.irrr , a The Chinese general, according
CINCINNATI, Ohio.--(AP)— $ 0 advices to th newspaper, I*ed
The United States was mode lia- when he found h was unable to
ble to refund $2,627,309.05 and to I control his troops, which greatly
lore an additional $35,100,000 with ‘mtnmnber the Japanese in the ef-
Seven: fighting is continuing in
sinan, the Aaahi Shimbun’s 'lino
fsin corr t pondent reported.
BY JACK FI^OST
It seems that the weather maii is playing a great
part in Georgia’s baseball schedule this year.-
Many are the games on the Red and Black card
that have been cancelled this season due to rain but
if the weather conditions are favorable the Bulldog
team will appear on the diamond here again on Fri-
dav-and Saturday afternoons when the Petrels of.
Oglethorpe University will be on hand for a two Ficrtda! commander In chief of the
game scries.
The opposing toara for the scries
I’nved th
ATLANTA —(AP)-— Governor
Hardman Tuesday said, he would
take no further attion in the caae
of Wade Johnson, 3IiH«dgeville
youth, awaiting hanging 1 Friday at
Gray, Georgia, for his port in an
attack upon on aged Jones county
woman m M*v 1924, which cost
:K* woman’* life.
ATLANTA MAN IS
TAKEN BY DEATH;
ILL LONG TIME
ATLANTA, Co. —(AP)— Ed
gar Dunlap, prwrfdant of the Dun
lap Insurance Company, died In a
sanitarium here Tuesday after an
illness of six months. Mr. Dunlap
has been prominent in insurance
circle, here due* 1886. He la sur
vived by his wife and two sons.
"I would be delighted if it came
my way, although t do not expect
it to,” Ritchie said, in a ten-minute
hearing held in his busnesx office
on the tenth floor of a bank build
ing here. '
Ritchie said he hod no campaign
fund and did not expect to havr
any.
WOULD RELIEVE
tp be p’ayed this week-end is not
a conference team and for that
reason the Bulldogs can neither
better or lower their march to
wn id the confefencfc championship
but tho fact that Oglethorpe has
Un '
one, of the outstanding teams in
this part of the country, the series
with that t om here on Friday and
Saturday is expected to be one of
the best battles to be played on
home toil, this season,
Oglethorpe has played a number
of tho strongest conference teams
this year and a majority of the
games the Petrels have taken part
in, have been successful. In a aa-
_ . _ -riea with the Yellow Jackets of
COTTON FARMERS ,Ceor « i ? T;ch ^ *■«**!»
OF FREIGHT BILL
WASHINGTON —(AP)— The
southern cotton planters would be
relieved of freight charges on fu-
games by one run margins. Ogle
thorpe defeated Tenn-saec In three
S imca and alao took three from
ercer this season.
The Bulldogs were scheduled to
play two games with the Auburn
Tigers here Monday and Tuesday.
The game for Monday afternoon
ture contracts sold on the New was postponed on account of rain
York Cotton Exchange and the ex- land a double header scheduled for
change trader would assume that-and so was the first game of a
cost, under an amendment to the | proposed double-header for Tues-
Vinson bill offered by Represents- 'day.
live Jones, democrat, Texas, and
approved Tuesday by the house ag
riculture committee.
The Vhtaon bill would regulate
cotton future transactions.
Another amendment by Repre
sentative Fulmer, democrat, South
Carolina, named six southern cities
as spot cotton markets to which
futufe deliveries should 'be made.
The cities were Charleston, Savan
nah,; New Orleans, Houston and
Galveston, J Texa».
BULLPUPS PLAY WEDNESDAY
The University of Georgia Bull-
pupa will be aeen in action here
again Wednesday afternoon when
the young Red and Black team
will moet the Junior Petrels of
OgV-tiioroc University.
According to reports the yi
PLAY ONE GAME
The first game of the double-
header which was scheduled for
Sanford Field Tuesday after
noon between Georgia and Au
burn, waa called off late Tucs-
day morning.
One game will be played at
4 o’clock, if the weather per
mits.) The two teams have met
in only one game out of tho
four scheduled so far. One
game whs rained out at Au
burn, while the other ended in
a tie. -If the game is played
Tuesday afternoon, it will be
tho deriding game of the se
ries.
Its as survives, was gathering hero
Tuesday.
At 8:00 p. m. Tuesday the 3$tb
annual reunion of tho United Con.
federate Veterans was scheduled
to open officially with a joint as
semhiy of veterans, tholr wives and
sons.
Officials In charge of the re
union said they expooted about
5,000 delegates hsre when tbs first
bugle calls them to order.
Accommodations' have been
made for 50,000 visitors.
Among the Important officials of
the veterans .organisation ltere
Tneaday were Dr. Sumter Lowry of
BRAZIL DECLINES
TO REMAIN IN
LEAGUE .
GENEVA—(AP)— Brasil, has
declined a recent invitation of th?
League of Nations to cancel her
resignation which will shortly go
into effect.
In answer made public Tuesday,
Brasil proposes collaboration with
Sons' of Confederate Veterans:
General J. S. Foster. Houston, Tex
as. commander In chief of the
United Confederate Veterans; Na.
than Bedford Forrest, son ef Gen
eral Forrest of tbe Civil War and
past eommandor of tbe Sons ot
Confederate Veterans and Hollins
N. Randolph of Atlanta, president
of the Stone Mountain Confederate
Monumental Association.
HENRY FORD SEES
CONTINUED BOOM
IN UNHID STATES
Kales in the district court trial
and appeol.
In addition to Mrs. Kales’ claim
against tho government, $35,100,-
000 was represented in the peti
tion of seven other former hold
ers of Ford stock as friends of
tho Court. Their cases, similar in
nature, are pending before the
board of tax appeals nnd the
plaintiffs ' have posted bonds for
the amount.
Dove Is Quarrelsome;
Loon Is Not Crazy;
Owl Is a Dumbbell;
Where Are We Drifting
Communication between Tainan
and Tsing Tai have been severed,
it was said. Only the most meagre
details were rec-ived here.
Tho War Office lacks official
advices of the new attacks, but
are maintaining a careful watch.
At present 20 transports with
troop* are being h-ld in readiness
for dispatch to the Chinese ar?a
as soon as the cabinet makes a
final decision on the need of theif
•being sent to China. Some Japa*
nceo reinforcements were said to
be en route to China Tuesday.
JAPS IN CONTROL
LONDON —(UP)— Tsing T*o
correspondent of the Manchsaftr
Guardian Tuesday advised that
the latest clash between Japaittflp
and Chineso troops at Tsinan-F»»
ended at 11 o’clock Monday night
ith the Japanese well in control
of the situation.
U. S. MEDIATION ' •
LONDON —(AP)—A Reutom
dispatch from Shanghai, China,
says it is understood that the na
tionalist government is consider*
ing inviting the mediation of the
(Turn to page five.) . <
NEW YORK.—*fUP)—Continued
prosperity in tbp United States
was predicted by Henry Ford when
he returned Tueaday on the Ma
jestic from bis trip abroad.
“I am confident that current
prosperity in the United States
will continue, H Ford said. **1110
business outlook is good and there
is no factor In sight to distort) its
future.
AMERICAN VICE
CONSUL’S BODY
FOUND IN CHINA
SHANGHAI.
fra h/wfv g»# J
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The
dove popular as an emblem ef
peace and olivo branch carrier.
Is quarrelsome and dove
mates quarrel In the privacy
of their domestic life; the carl,
trademark of wisdom, ha. so
small a brain that ho ranks
very low In intelligence:
geese are not silly by any
ln'cona, but are wary, clever
and cautious*
Be declare* Dr. W. D. Funk,
houaer, professor of zoology
at tho Unhreraity of Kentucky,
discoverer of more relics of
ancient race, than any other
man In the south. FUnkhotu-
«r also say* the baid eagle,
whoso figure stands for the
independence and liberty of
the United States, is not on
admirable bird from various
viewpoint*; aaaertu that tho
"proud peacock” I* not par.
ticularly so, and th.? loon is
not craxy, thereby giving •
blow-to a popular bromide.
Funkhoueer made hi* asser
tions at a session of tho Ken
tucky Ornithological Society,
at its annua- meeting in
Losltvill*., He declared that
the crOW and blutjay are
probably, tho moat intelligent
biros found, in Kenauaky and
pointed out some evidence, of
their "smartn-n;” the yeliow-
bihtd cucko) was held to bo
M-wma'*
r- I "*•■**■ — -T raw** wit irnmo
tbeLeagam and *»ys that Urn the | American trice Consul, who disap-L the “beet a.’-round fric-d ot
wr-'T- „ oung | tho League, and «*ys that if in t— _
Oglethorpe hall to&sem are one of j future, s)» ffftds it possible to re* Ipeared a week ago, was found ini man.” while the thrasher,
S. i. Li
SEEKS DAMAGES AS
An unusual suit has been fded
by th* S. A* L. railroad against
G. S. Bunch, of Atlanta. The road
is suing to recover damages caused
tho road when a Bunch truck driv
en by Coy Benton wrecked the
•Seaboard passenger train, number
5, at Statham on February 4. last.
Bmton and tho engineer, H. A*
McCIcskey, were killed in the
thj best first year outfits in tbe I turn, she will have ground for re- the Whanpoo river, eight miles be-1 mocking bird and thrushes
(Turn to page five.) 'joining. low Shanghai. , J[ are the sweetest singers.
The road Is suing for $ll,7do.20
damages and lists an itemized ac
count of them with the suit.
Benton is alleged to havo
driving tho truck along tho Bank*
head highway and turned into ths
town of Statham, across the rail
road track a* the train was ap
proaching, going towards Atlanta.
The truck was struck by the en
gine, which was derailed, and Bob*
ton was killed outright. The engi
neer surviv'd a few days and died
in a local hospital.
The suit has been filed in tlw
city court of Decatur, D?4CnHi
county, where Bunch lives, bv John
B. Gamble, attorney for the wtt*
road.
It Is ssJorailood that Mrs. U*n*
ton, widow of the truck driver, hn
also filed suit against the ml*
1 for damages in the amMU|$
of $50,000,